Series 5 Page Converter, What Does It Do?

Overview

The Series 5 Page Converter takes a Series 5 User file (.user) and converts it to a Compass user file (.bzf). The resulting file contains:

A named .bzf file with all of the folders and pages for the Series 5 user plus any embedded images and sounds used on pages in that user.

My Symbols.library that contains all of the custom symbols from the Series 5 user that actually appeared on pages. It doesn’t copy everything out of the Series 5 My Symbols library, just the symbols that are actually used.

Dummy settings .xml, UserVars.bpf, and userdb.sqlite files.

The Series 5 user’s abbreviation expansions and My Phrases

Objects Converted

Folders

Name

Pages and Popups (Popups become pages)

Name

Screen Region

Background color

Background image

Note: .gifs are not converted

Background image wrap

Scaled and Snugged > Stretch

Tiled > Tile

Any other > Actual

Open Page actions

Close Page actions

Note: Series 5 popup Styles (Title Bar, Moveable, Static) all convert to one type in Compass. The Compass style does not have a title bar and you may need to add an action to Close Popup.)

Buttons

Screen region

Button type:

Word predictor, Character Predictor, Recency > Word Predictor

Phrase Predictor > Phrase Predictor

All else > normal

Word and Phrase Predictors have:

Border color

Background color

Normal Buttons have:

Border color

Border width

Note: the wider widths are not converted on beveled buttons.

Background color

Shape:

Folder and Flat Folder > Folder

Flat, Rectangle, Photo > Rectangle (the flat one)

RoundRect > RoundedRect

Ellipse > Circle

Normal > Chiseled Edge Rectangle

Anything else > Rectangle (the flat one)

Labels

Symbols

Actions

Name

Messages

Audio cue

Note: TTS cues, not sound files

Labels

Screen region

Text of the label

Note: Label location on a button may sometimes change, for example, from the top to the bottom of a button.

Font

Note: There may be font differences between the two platforms that change appearance somewhat.

Text color

Horizontal text justification

Name

Messages

Any embedded slots are converted to plain text in the label because the slots are not brought forward.

Active Labels

In the Series 5, active labels can be made in two ways:

1. - with the active label object in page editing. 2. - using an action such as Insert Active Label to add an active label in the text of a regular label.

The converter converts the active labels in #1.

The active labels in #2 become regular text.

Screen region

Type of the label

Day

Date

Time

Keyboard Key

Autospace

Autocapitalize

Clear after speech

Speak on entry

None of the rest

Font

Text color

Horizontal text justification

Symbols

Screen region

Symbol reference – translated as described below

Name

Messages

Message Window

Screen region

Name

Messages

Tab Controls

Screen region

Tab height

Tab Panes

Label

Symbol

Name

Note: The names used for tab panes aren’t visible in Compass.

Messages

The placement of the label and symbol on the header may differ from the Series 5.

Boxes (converted to Group Box)

Screen Region

Text

Name

Messages

Header for the box is not converted

Active Areas (becomes hot spot)

Screen region

Actions

Name

Messages

Audio cue

Note: TTS cues, not sound files, are converted.

Objects Not Converted

Search Boxes

Multipage Objects

Note: they are converted so that you can see what you were using in the Series 5, then use a Vocabulary Grid object in Compass.

Lines

Freeform Buttons

Note: Convert but become rectangular buttons.

Freeform Active Areas

Note: Convert but become rectangular buttons.

Ebook viewer and Ebook TOC

Eye Tracking Status Object

Scanning groups are not converted

On-screen keyboards are converted but just become pages .

Templates are converted into “pages” (can also be used to make pages “Like Page” in Compass)

System Variables

What are we doing with symbols?

PCS Symbols – Series 5 had a subset of the PCS symbols. We map those into DynaVox Compass (their IDs are all different).

My Symbols – My Symbols that are attached to buttons, etc., come over into the My Symbols.library file in DynaVox Compass.

Everything else – for everything else we use the image from the symbol and create a new symbol stored in My Symbols in Compass.

Only the 1st frame of an animated symbol is imported.

Data and Miscellaneous

We aren’t bringing over:

Settings,

Slots,

Dictionary entries,

Pronunciation Exceptions,

Photo albums, or

email.

Macros are converted to top-level macros

Phrases in the Series 5 that have multiple concepts are added to only one Phrase folder in Compass (in Vocabulary/My Phrases) as the organization of My Phrases is different in Compass.

Behaviors Converted to Actions

A list of individual S5 behaviors that will be converted into Compass actions follows.For scripts, the converter will convert some of the Series 5 behaviors into Compass actions. Some of the behaviors in the script, however, may not be converted. The last section of this document lists behaviors that will not be converted.

Message Window

Cursor Up

Cursor Down

Cursor Left

Cursor Right

Scroll Up

Scroll Down

Line Begin

Line End

Message Window Start

Message Window End

Previous Word

Next Word

Previous Sentence

Next Sentence

Previous Paragraph

Next Paragraph

Insert Text

Insert Image and Text

Insert Image and Sound

Insert Label

Insert Sound Button (M3)

Insert New Line

Expand Abbreviation

Backspace

Delete Character

Clear

Delete Word

Select Previous Word

Start Selecting

Stop Selecting

Select All

Deselect Text

Spell Check

Symbol Spell Check

Show Word Forms

Change Word Form

Symbolate the Selected Text

Desymbolate the Selection

Search for Text

Search Again for Text

Copy

Cut

Paste

Chat Mode On or Off

Load File

Load Text and Symbolate

Save Message Window

Save Message Window As...

Save Message Window As Text...

Copy to 'Abbreviation Expansion'

Start of Selection

End of Selection

Undo

Redo

Next Slot

Previous Slot

Edit Current Slot

Insert Slot

Insert Text Before Selection

Insert Text After Selection

Insert Text, Fill Slots

Insert Label, Fill Slots

Add to 'My Phrases'

Make Slot from Selection

Navigation

Close Popup

Close All Popups

Go to Page

Page Forward

Page Back

Go to Home Page

Open Popup Exclusively

Popup Exclusively to Position

Speech, Sound and Video

Play a Sound

Play Video

Speak Text

Speak Label

Volume Up

Volume Down

Change Volume

Change Rate

Raise Speech Rate

Lower Speech Rate

Change Voice

Speak Selection

Speak Message Window

Speak Word

Speak Paragraph

Speak Sentence

System Tools

Setup Menu

System Keyboards

Cancel & Close System Keyboard

OK & Close System Keyboard

Shift Key

Ctrl Key

Alt Key

Caps Lock Key

Normal Key Mode

Insert Key

Programming

Source Code Comment

While loop

If-then

Assignment Statement

Send Message to Object

Speak Expression

Set Label

Set Symbol

Disable

Enable

Set Color

Set Border Color

Set Text Color

Insert Variable

Hide

Show

Save Open Pages

Activate a Macro

Broadcast Message

Pause

Millisecond Pause

Miscellaneous

Launch an Application

Open Document

Note: Converts to LaunchFile which may be supported in Compass in the future.

Reset Prediction

Show More Predictions

Show Message

Word Prediction On or Off

Note: Converts to TogglePrediction which may be supported in Compass in the future.

Behaviors Not Converted to Actions

The following Series 5 behaviors have not been converted to actions in Compass. For most of these, the reason is obvious. For example, entire classes of these have no counterpart in Compass, at least today. This includes:

ECU

Computer Access

Telephone support

Email

Some types of navigation like minimizing popups, jumping with search, bookmarks, etc.

Some language support like adding prefixes and suffixes with spelling rules, Find Similar Words, Expansion Rules, multi-language support

Interaction between Series 5 and onscreen keyboards

Text Messaging,

ebooks,

Some types of Active Labels that depended on variables that aren’t present in Compass.

Media and MP3s beyond simple playing of files

most of the Series 5 System Tools

Eye tracking and other aspects of selection methods

Device-level items

The Series 5 idea of photo albums,

Programmatic support for editing,

Printing

Calculator behaviors

Most of these are not supportable in Compass at this time. Some actions on the following list are possibly supportable under Compass but were left out due to either complexity of support of perceived lack of importance.

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